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The median home value in Lemon Grove, CA is $761,919 as of 2026-07-31, down 0.65% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$761,919
Year-over-Year
-0.65%
Population
27,559
Lemon Grove ranks #203 of 396 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 0.5% below the state's city median of $765,555. It sits in San Diego County, where the county-wide median is $934,169.
Median household income in Lemon Grove is $88,009, so the typical home value is about 8.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Lemon Grove police recorded a violent crime rate of 443 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,074 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Lemon Grove, that value is $761,919. That's down 0.65% from a year earlier. It is about 0.5% below the typical California city tracked here.
Homes in Lemon Grove are cheaper than San Diego County as a whole, where the median is $934,169 — a difference of about 18.4%.
Median household income here is $88,009, so the typical home value is about 8.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Lemon Grove police reported 443 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 27,559. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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